“Did you read Beryl Markham’s book, “West with the Night”? …She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an...
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Expounding on the absurdity of the human condition may be, in itself, the pinnacle thereof. But undertaken by two of literature’s all-time greats, Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoevsky, in their respective novels The Stranger and Notes from Underground, the result of that exercise is anything but absurd, producing timeless works that shine a powerful...
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Common is the overlap between the erudite and the erotic when it comes to fine art; rare, however, is the artist who can inhabit that Venn diagram with the aplomb of James Salter and Henry Miller. Both New York boys, both at various points ex-pats living off the degenerate succulence of France, these two...
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